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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy, Insurance Law, Reinsurance, Labor Law, Employment Law, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Securities Law, Complex Litigation, Trial Practice

Additional Information: Steven P. Rice is a partner in Crowell & Moring LLP’s Irvine, California office and serves as the Orange County Chair of the firm's Litigation Group. Steve specializes in complex business litigation, including issues arising from claims of unfair competition, unfair business practices, interference with contract and other business torts, breach of fiduciary duty, violation of state and federal securities laws, RICO, insurance coverage and bad faith, bankruptcy, labor and employment, construction, and government contracts.

Steve has extensive bench and jury trial experience in state and federal courts throughout California, the western United States, and the nation. He has also handled numerous arbitrations, mediations, and other form of ADR.

At the appellate level, Steve has argued many high-profile cases, resulting in several published opinions, before state and federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court, and the California Court of Appeal, involving such diverse issues as insurance coverage and bad faith, bankruptcy, breach of fiduciary duty, common law fraud, federal securities law, RICO, attachment law, property taxation, and ERISA.

Steve has also worked extensively on a pro bono basis in matters involving senior citizen and homeowner’s rights, veteran’s rights, predatory lending, and securities fraud, among others. In 2002, Steve was named the Attorney of the Year by the Public Law Center of Orange County for excellence and dedication in pro bono work. He is also a volunteer arbitrator for the Mandatory Fee Arbitration Committee of the Orange County Bar Association.

Steve earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, summa cum laude, from Occidental College in 1977. In 1980, he earned his law degree from Harvard Law School. Steve joined Crowell & Moring in 1996, having previously been a partner in the Los Angeles and Orange County offices of Kindel & Anderson LLP, where he had practiced since graduating from law school.